Politics
Many of the titles are a part of the series Critical Human Rights and Studies in American Thought and Culture.
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Wisconsin Sentencing in the Tough-on-Crime Era
How Judges Retained Power and Why Mass Incarceration Happened Anyway
Michael O'Hear
“Serious students of modern sentencing reforms—as well as everyone eager to understand the roots of, and potential responses to, modern mass incarceration—must have this book on their reading list. O’Hear thoroughly canvasses the dynamic story of Wisconsin’s uniquely important sentencing reform history.”
—Douglas Berman, author of the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog
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Power without Restraint
The Post-9/11 Presidency and National Security
Chris Edelson
“A clear and powerfully argued direct comparison of the policies and rhetoric of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, demonstrating that they are more alike than different in their approaches to combating terrorism.”
—Michael A. Genovese, author of The Power of theAmerican Presidency
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American Surveillance
Intelligence, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment
Anthony Gregory
“A cogent synthesis of the history of American surveillance and of its conflict with the right to privacy enshrined in the federal Constitution. Thoroughly researched and eloquent, American Surveillance traces government surveillance from colonial times to beyond 9/11.”
—William J. Cuddihy, author of The Fourth Amendment
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Eclipse of the Assassins
The CIA, Imperial Politics, and the Slaying of Mexican Journalist Manuel Buendía
Russell H. Bartley and Sylvia Erickson Bartley
Fall 2015
From War to Genocide
Criminal Politics in Rwanda, 1990–1994
André Guichaoua, Translated by Don E. Webster, Foreword by Scott Straus
Fall 2015
Words of Witness
Black Women’s Autobiography in the Post-Brown Era
Angela A. Ards
Fall 2015
Amending the Past
Europe’s Holocaust Commissions and the Right to History
Alexander Karn
Fall 2015
Shaping the New Man
Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Alessio Ponzio
Fall 2015
Protest on the Page
Essays on Print and the Culture of Dissent
Edited by James L. Baughman, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, and James P. Danky
Spring 2015
Education as Politics
Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s–1914
Kelly Duke Bryant
Spring 2015
Drift and Mastery
An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest
Walter Lippmann
Spring 2015
Cubans in Angola
South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976–1991
Christine Hatzky
Fall 2014
Memory’s Turn
Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil
Rebecca J. Atencio
Spring 2014
In a New Century
Essays on Queer History, Politics, and Community Life
John D’Emilio
Spring 2014
The Cross of War
Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War
Matthew McCullough
Spring 2014
Into New Territory
American Historians and the Concept of US Imperialism
James G. Morgan
Spring 2014
The Human Rights Paradox
American Historians and the Concept of US Imperialism
Edited by Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus
Spring 2014
Sister
An African American Life in Search of Justice
Sylvia Bell White and Jody LePage
Spring 2013
Worse than the Devil
Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror
Dean A. Strang
Spring 2013
Against the Tide
Immigrants, Day Laborers, and Community in Jupiter, Florida
Sandra Lazo de la Vega and Timothy J. Steigenga
Fall 2012
How Difficult It Is to Be God
Shining Path’s Politics of War in Peru, 1980–1999
Carlos Iván Degregori, Edited and with an introduction by Steve J. Stern
Fall 2012
Negotiating Empire
The Cultural Politics of Schools in Puerto Rico, 1898–1952
Solsiree del Moral
Fall 2012
Endless Empire
Spain’s Retreat, Europe’s Eclipse, America’s Decline
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy, Josep M. Fradera, and Stephen Jacobson
Fall 2012
Screen Nazis
Cinema, History, and Democracy
Sabine Hake
Spring 2012
Remaking Rwanda
State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence
Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf
Spring 2011
The Floracrats
State-Sponsored Science and the Failure of the Enlightenment in Indonesia
Andrew Goss
Fall 2010
For Labor, Race, and Liberty
George Edwin Taylor, His Historic Run for the White House, and the Making of Independent Black Politics
Bruce L. Mouser
Fall 2010
Spain
A Unique History
Stanley G. Payne
Fall 2010
Beyond Displacement
Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War
Molly Todd
Fall 2010
African Women Writing Resistance
An Anthology of Contemporary Voices
Edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Pauline Dongala, Omotayo Jolaosho, and Anne Serafin
Spring 2010
Court of Remorse
Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Thierry Cruvellier
Spring 2010
Being Colonized
The Kuba Experience in Rural Congo, 1880–1960
Jan Vansina
Spring 2010
Policing America’s Empire
The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
Alfred W. McCoy
Fall 2009
Colonial Crucible
Empire in the Making of the Modern American State
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano
Spring 2009
Democracy in Print
The Best of The Progressive Magazine, 1909–2009
Edited by Matthew Rothschild
Spring 2009
The Presidents We Imagine
Two Centuries of White House Fictions on the Page, on the Stage, Onscreen, and Online
Jeff Smith
Spring 2009
La Grande Italia
The Myth of the Nation in the Twentieth Century
Emilio Gentile
Fall 2008
Unsafe for Democracy
World War I and the U.S. Justice Department’s Covert Campaign to Suppress Dissent
William H. Thomas Jr.
Fall 2008
With Honor
Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics
Dale Van Atta
Spring 2008
Margaret Fuller
Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary Age
Edited by Charles Capper and Cristina Giorcelli
Fall 2007
Engaging Modernity
Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger
Ousseina D. Alidou
Fall 2005
The Slow Failure
Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920–1973
Mary E. Daly
Fall 2005
Envisioning Brazil
A Guide to Brazilian Studies in the United States
Edited by Marshall C. Eakin and Paulo Roberto de Almeida
Spring 2005
In the Land of Orpheus
Rural Livelihoods and Nature Conservation in Postsocialist Bulgaria
Barbara A. Cellarius
Fall 2004
Recalling the Revolution
Memoirs of a Filipino General
Santiago V. Alvarez, Translated by Paula Carolina S. Malay
Spring 2004
The Inferno
A Story of Terror and Survival in Chile
Luz Arce, Translated by Stacey Alba Skar
Spring 2004
Inventing a Hero
The Posthumous Re-Creation of Andres Bonifacio
Glenn Anthony May
Spring 2004
Lives at the Margin
Biography of Filipinos Obscure, Ordinary, and Heroic
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy
Spring 2004
Cultured Force
Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire
Barnett Singer and John Langdon
Spring 2004
Yugoslavism
Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918–1992
Edited by Dejan Djokic
Spring 2003
Sinn Féin
A Hundred Turbulent Years
Brian Feeney
Spring 2003
Iran
From Religious Dispute to Revolution
Michael M. J. Fischer
Spring 2003
Creating Spaniards
Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain
Sandie Holguín
Fall 2002
Beyond Earth Day
Fulfilling the Promise
Gaylord Nelson, with Susan Campbell and Paul Wozniak
Fall 2002
We Alone Will Rule
Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency
Sinclair Thomson
Fall 2002
Fieldwork Dilemmas
Anthropologists in Postsocialist States
Edited by Hermine G. De Soto and Nora Dudwick
Fall 2000
When Government Was Good
Memories of a Life in Politics
Henry S. Reuss, With a Foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith
Spring 1999
Who Owns America?
Social Conflict over Property Rights
Edited by Harvey M. Jacobs
Fall 1998
Indigenism
Ethnic Politics in Brazil
Alcida Rita Ramos
Fall 1998
Exploring Forgiveness
Edited by Robert D. Enright and Joanna North, With a Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Spring 1998
Academic Freedom on Trial
100 Years of Sifting and Winnowing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Edited by W. Lee Hansen
Spring 1998
Splintered Sisterhood
Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage
Susan E. Marshall
Spring 1997
Reel Patriotism
The Movies and World War I
Leslie Midkiff DeBauche
Spring 1997
The Healthiest City
Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform: Wisconsin Edition
Judith Walzer Leavitt
Fall 1996
After the USSR
Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States
Anatoly M. Khazanov
Fall 1995
Folk Law
Essays in the Theory and Practice of Lex Non Scripta
Edited by Alison Dundes Renteln and Alan Dundes
Fall 1995
Living Under Contract
Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Edited by Peter D. Little and Michael J. Watts
Spring 1994
Prescribing the Life of the Mind
An Essay on the Purpose of the University, the Aims of Liberal Education, the Competence of Citizens, and the Cultivation of Practical Reason
Charles W. Anderson
Fall 1993
Behind the Throne
Servants of Power to Imperial Presidents, 1898–1968
Edited by Thomas J. McCormick and Walter LaFeber
Fall 1993
Race in America
The Struggle for Equality
Edited by Herbert Hill and James E. Jones Jr.
Spring 1993
The Politics of Pensions
A Comparative Analysis of Britain, Canada, and the United States, 1880–1940
Ann Shola Orloff
Fall 1992
Colonial Situations
Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge
Edited by George W. Stocking, Jr.
Fall 1991
Watch on the Right
Conservative Intellectuals in the Reagan Era
J. David Hoeveler Jr.
Spring 1991
Let’s Make a Deal
Understanding the Negotiation Process in Ordinary Litigation
Herbert M. Kritzer
Spring 1991
Polpop 2
Politics and Popular Culture in America Today
James Combs
1991
What’s Left?
The Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Right
Diane Rubenstein
Fall 1990
Race, Class, and Education
The Politics of Second-Generation Discrimination
Kenneth J. Meier, Joseph Stewart, Jr., and Robert E. England
Fall 1989
Politics and the Muse
Studies in the Politics of Recent American Literature
Edited by Adam J. Sorkin
1989
State Policy Choices
The Wisconsin Experience
Edited by Sheldon H. Danziger and John F. Witte
Fall 1988
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Political Writings
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Translated and edited by Fredrick Watkins; Foreword by Patrick Riley
Fall 1986
Fascism
Comparison and Definition
Stanley G. Payne
Spring 1980
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